Cigar-lighter.



.PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908.

B. BERG. CIGAR LIGHTER.

APPLIGATIONTILED AER.'26,-1907.

Fi g4 lnveh or Eskil- Berg, by A v.

Wnfinesses.

UNl'i-ED STATES PiTENT FFICE.

ESKIL BERG, OF SCHENEGTADY, YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CIGAR-LIGHTER.

No ceases.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, mos.

To all "whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ESKIL BERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Schenectady, county of Schenectady, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electric cigar lighters and the like and has for its object the provision of a device of this character which will perform its functions in a quick and efiicient manner and at the same time be thoroughly durable", cheap and reliable.

My invention relates most specifically to the type of cigar lighter described in the patent to Van Aller, No. 848,939. In this particular form of cigar lighter a resistance conductor is wound into coils and arranged so as to present aflat surface. Over this conductor a refractory shield is placed. which will protect the conductor from blows and keep out foreigninatter. i Moreover a uniformly hot flat surface for contact with the cigar is provided.

In carrying out my invention I provide a shield of any desired material, which shield is perforated so as to permit a flow of air Which'must pass over the heated conductor and will thus save the resistance conductor and accomplish the lighting of a cigar in a more speedy and efiicient manner.

In the drawings in which I have shown one embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigar lighter equipped with my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of a cigar lighter with the cover and shield removed; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the cover; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the shield.

Referring to the drawings 10 is an insulating base of any desired material, such as porcelain or the like, )rovided with screw thread and contacts a apting it for use in a lamp socket, The particular construction of this heating unit forms no part of my invention and is fully described in the Van Aller patent above referred to. The resistance coils 11 are mounted in the top of the base and arranged so as to present a hat surface. A cap or cover 12 is adapteiil to fit over the end of the base and is held in place by projections, 13 fitting into grooves 14. The cover is cut away at its central portion so as to expose the shield 15, which is arranged between the resistance conductor and r the cover and held in place thereby, This shield is preferably formed in a thin disk and composed of some refractory material such as mica, lava or the like. In order to draw the heat away from the conductor, I provide the shield with perforations 16 which may be arranged in any desired manner. I have shown these perforations, which are seven in number, arranged substantially in the form of a circle, and it is found desirable that the perforations extend over an area substantially equal to that of the end of a cigar. Of course, the size of the perforated area is not an essential feature of my invention and may be varied at will.

7 By the use of my perforated shield it will be seen that as the cigar is lighted the hot air will be drawn through the perforations into the cigar thus lighting it quickly and thoroughly so that it isnot essential that the disk reach a red heat before the cigar is lighted. whereas without the perforations it is necessary that the shield comes up to the proper temperature.

It will, of course, be understood that various modifications of my invention will sug gest themselves to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth in the annexed claims.

What 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is,

1 A cigar lighter comprising an electric heating unit, and a shield having both an imperforate and a perforated portion arranged over and adjacent to said unit.

2. An electric cigar lighter comprising a base having a resistance conductor mounted thereon, and a shield having both an imperforate and a perforated portion arranged over said conductor and adjacent thereto.

3. An electric cigar lighter comprising a base having a resistance conductor mounted said conductor and haying a perforated area,

full-m lled thereon so as to prs'sent a flat surimperfomte ares, and a erforated area substantially the size f :L cigar and. l

3. electric cigar lighter comprising an insulating base having a resistance conductor mounted there'on, and a. thin imperlomte shilgl of mfrastol y material. arranged eve-1' r subs? @ially the sizenfs cigar end. 1 91mm cigar lflghtsr comprising an insulating base having a resistance. conductor 5 m, ands shield af'mnged. over said c0fiduc-, tor and having psrlolated ares substan tisll v' of cigar end;

i insulating base 23 mounted thereon so face, and an imperforate mica shield arranged over said conductor and fixlja'cent said shield havin a, plurality of perl'ur'ations 0 extending over size of a cigar end.

ssssas "u cer cmnpirsin q nssla-ncs somlus as to present a l A 8. An sls-ctris cigsz'zl" thereto an area substantially Eh? In Witness Whersnf, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day 0f April, 1.907.

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